"Peter J. Holzer" wrote:
> 
> In addition to the inaccuracies inherent in fp computation, povray
> sometimes compares against arbitrarily chosen "magic numbers". If your
> numbers are much larger or much smaller than the authors of povray
> thought anyone would ever need, those comparisons don't yield the
> expected results. For example, I once tried to model the solar system
> with a pov-unit of 1 km. The sun wasn't visible from the earth.
> When I changed the pov-unit to 1 Mm, it magically appeared.

That sounds almost exactly like my problem. So this is, in fact, a
long-standing bug in POV-Ray?

-Xplo

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